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E27 DIY LED Light Bulb Casing with Focusing Optic

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Ownership verified by DX Good host for 21mm Star
Posted by KentS on 1/27/2009
Involvement: Expert (understands the inner workings) - Ownership: more than 1 month

Price: starstarstarstarstar
Ease of Use: starstarstarstarstar
Build Quality: starstarstarstar
Usefulness: starstarstarstarstar
Overall Rating: starstarstarstarstar

Pros: Easy to mount star.
Perfect heat sink: With thermal glue on the star and thermal grease on all threads, thermal management is excellent. I use two of these for a bike light. With the airflow around the fins I am pretty sure that this heat sink could handle even an ssc p7 or CREE MC-E.
All-round size: all 35mm optics I've tried fit. I use the supplied one and sku.4544. The supplied optics is about 20 degrees.

Cons: Not watertight (but it's supposed to be used as a light bulb, so that is to be expected).
All drilled holes for attaching the base of the bulb were not equally sized.

Other Thoughts: I will get more and actually use them for light bulbs.
If heat sink would mount backwards (with the flat side towards the bulb head) a larger star with e.g. 3 CREE LEDs could be mounted.

Bottomline: Very versatile sku. A very good buy, I will get more.

Ownership verified by DX Perfect host for bike light
Posted by KentS on 1/20/2009
Involvement: Expert (understands the inner workings) - Ownership: 1 week to 1 month

Price: starstarstarstarstar
Ease of Use: starstarstarstarstar
Build Quality: starstarstarstar
Usefulness: starstarstarstarstar
Overall Rating: starstarstarstarstar

Pros: Very efficient heatsink. I attached a CREE R2 star with thermal glue and added thermal grease to all threads. With the LED driven at 700mA all of the casing is warm within minutes. The Star itself is still only lukewarm.
Any 35mm optics seems to fit. I used two of these casings for a home made bike light. One of them has the optics supplied - it doesn't fit CREE perfectly but still gives a useful 15-20 degree beam. The other one has a 10 degree optics. Together they give a very nice beam. I also tested another 35mm optics, it fitted fine but I didn't like the beam profile.

Cons: Not watertight. This can be solved with some O-rings and silicone.

Since it is meant as a light bulb not a bike light, attaching it to some kind of mount that goes on the bike takes some working out.
I ordered three - diameter of holes for attaching housing differed between them.

Other Thoughts: If the pill could be screwed in the other way around the flat side could be used to attach a larger PCB than a star with e.g. 3 CREE LEDs. Since a 35mm optics for 3 CREE will most probably fit this would give a simple but good host for at 3 CREE bike light.

Bottomline: Very good and stylish heatsink. With the added airflow of a bike light application it would probably be good enough for 3 CREE, MC-E or even SSC P7 application.

Ownership verified by DX Awesome Round heatsink
Posted by ahorton on 10/1/2008
Involvement: General (knows how to use it) - Ownership: 1 day to 1 week

Price: starstarstarstarstar
Ease of Use: starstarstarstarstar
Build Quality: starstarstarstar
Usefulness: starstarstarstarstar
Overall Rating: starstarstarstarstar

Pros: Great heatsink. I'll be buying more soon.
Nice thick aluminium base that fits my star MCPCBs perfectly. The pre-drilled holes are all in very useful spots for adding a star.
I tested the heat transfer between two parts when they were just screwed together without any thermal grease. I heated the base with a 60W soldering iron in the centre and found the outer fins warmed up almost straight away. Even after a few minutes of running the base was always cool enough to touch. Without the fins, the base was too hot to touch within 30 seconds. So I'm very happy with the heat exchange between the base - fins - air.
The cylinder part of the heatsink is threaded at both ends so you can flip it around either way.
The threads are fine on the one I got.

Cons: Tooling marks were visible on the outer parts of the fins. This doesn't bother me. The rest of the heatsink didn't show any marks.

Other Thoughts: I must mention that I'm just using the heatsink to make my own headtorch. So everything but the heatsink is of no interest to me.
I've been using CPU heatsinks so far, but they have all their fins on one side of a flat sheet (of course). This thing puts all the fins beside the LED so it doesn't stick out from my head so far (reducing wobble while I run).

Bottomline: I can see how these would make neat little LED lights. It would be easy to add a driver in the screw base.
As for me, it's a perfect heatsink that will make a very neat headtorch.

Ownership verified by DX Works well With Cree XR-E Star
Posted by oBoBo on 9/21/2008
Involvement: Expert (understands the inner workings) - Ownership: 1 day to 1 week

Price: starstarstarstarstar
Ease of Use: starstarstarstar
Build Quality: starstarstarstar
Usefulness: starstarstarstarstar
Overall Rating: starstarstarstarstar

Pros: Theres lots of room for drivers in the base.
The large optic throws very nicely at 39" (~1meter) the beam 20" wide when used with a Cree XR-E
Great heatsinking, with a 3watt LED driven by 1x3W GU10 Driver the heatsink registers at 112 Degrees F (45C)
The Screws hold well

Cons: The optic rattles around when using a Cree XR-E. Maybe if a SSC P4 or LuxeonIII works it won't. More information from Manufacturer would help.

Other Thoughts: I think a SSC P4 could fit as well, and perhaps make a better beam.
The 1x3W GU10 Driver fits in the threaded+plastic section with lots of room, just keep the driver from grounding to the threaded section(heatshrink/potting)
The threading and plastic need to be epoxied together, use a non-conductive plastic epoxy not JB WELD.
I used DEVCON 5Minute Epoxy
Tried to put a MR11 board in and though it fits the LEDs are right to the edge of the heatsink wall, no room for the optic.

Bottomline: It works great with a 3watt Cree
Make your own LED Spotlight,
Now we just need Neutral White LEDs

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Dimensions: 2.2 in x 2.2 in x 1.91 in
Weight: 1.87 oz
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